Dictionary

Online dictionaries & reference books

• CobuildDirect Corpus Sampler
  A useful tool to help you understand how a word or a phrase is used. You type in a query and you get around 40 examples of the word(s) used in context, from the CobuildDirect database – an English resource composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text.
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
  Shows definitions as well as etymological information. The definitions may not be very easy to understand though.
• Yahoo dictionary page
  An index of dictionaries for general and specific purposes.
• The Elements of Style
  This is the full-text on-line version of William Strunk’s book, which is widely recognized as a classic reference book of plain English style.
• The American Heritage Book of English Usage
  A practical guide to English style, with individual chapters devoted to grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, scientific forms, etc.